He did it: Patrick Marleau scored his 500th career goal. He truly is Mr. San Jose Shark.
I had the pleasure of attending the next home game on Saturday right after he reached the milestone in Vancouver, and nearly lost my voice chearing for Marleau. They mentioned his accomplishment once before the game and again during a break, and each time Marleau would only stand up and acknowledge the crowd cheering for him when he realized they would not stop until he did.
He's had his ups and downs, but he's truly a team player.
“I think when you hit a mark like this, you start thinking about everyone that’s helped you along the way,” Marleau said.
And on Saturday at home, Marleau assisted on both Sharks goals, helping out his teammates who had helped Marleau score his over the past two weeks.
Congrats Marleau, and thanks for the 20 years of hockey. Can't wait to see you raise the Cup.
We’ve all seen the movies – Captain America and his shield bashing Nazis left and right. If one of the most iconic symbols of American Freedom does it, are we supposed to follow his example?
After the inauguration of President Trump, white supremacist and Nazi Richard Spencer was punched in the face by a protester while giving an interview. Video of the assault quickly spread around the Internet, with many celebrating the attack.
Last weekend was the NHL All-Star game and skills competition, with Brent Burns, Martin Jones, and Joe Pavelski representing the San Jose Sharks in Los Angeles. And to no one's surprise, they were all booed!
Pavelski scored a goal during the tournament for the Pacific Division, and Burns scored during the skills competition's "Four Line Challenge". But since they represented the Pacific, we have to talk about the impossible shot Mike Smith made.
And across the country, the 2017 NFL Pro Bowl (their all-star game) was happening at the same time. The Oakland Raiders had seven Pro Bowlers (tied for most from any team), and the San Francisco 49ers had...none.
In the meantime the 49ers managed to hire a former safety with no General Manager-related experience as their new GM. It's really not clear what Jed York, the 49ers owner, is trying out here, and why he would sign John Lynch to a six year contract.
But really, how much worse could it get for the 49ers?
Over the weekend I migrated legoktm.com and associated services over to a new server. It's powered by Debian Jessie instead of the slowly aging Ubuntu Trusty. Most services were migrated with no downtime by rsync'ing content over and the updating DNS. Only git.legoktm.com had some downtime due to needing to stop the service before copying over the database.
I did not migrate my IRC bouncer history or configuration, so I'm starting fresh. So if I'm no longer in a channel, feel free to PM me and I'll rejoin!
At the same time I moved the main https://legoktm.com/ homepage to MediaWiki. Hopefully that will encourage me to update the content on it more often.
Finally, the tor relay node I'm running was moved to a separate server entirely. I plan on increasing the resources allocated to it.
The only person who would dare upstage Patrick Marleau's four goal night is Randy Hahn, with his hilarious call after Marleau's third goal to finish a natural hat-trick: "NATTY HATTY FOR PATTY". And after scoring another, Marleau became the first player to score four goals in a single period since the great Mario Lemieux did in 1997. He's also the third Shark to score four goals in a game, joining Owen Nolan (no video available, but his hat-trick from the 1997 All-Star game is fabulous) and Tomáš Hertl.
Marleau is also ready to hit his next milestone of 500 career goals - he's at 498 right now. Every impressive stat he puts up just further solidifies him as one of the greatest hockey players of his generation. But he's still missing the one achievement that all the greats need - a Stanley Cup. The Sharks made their first trip to the Stanley Cup Finals last year, but realistically had very little chance of winning; they simply were not the better team.
The main question these days is how long Marleau and Joe Thornton will keep playing for, and if they can stay healthy until they eventually win that Stanley Cup.
The De Anza Senate unanimously approved a resolution endorsing a proposal to create a direct Valley Transit Authority bus line between the Foothill and De Anza college campuses, and discussed resolutions passed by the Foothill-De Anza Board of Trustees about undocumented students and other minority groups.
The meeting abruptly ended after devolving into discussion over the senate’s Facebook group message, in which senate President Matthew Zarate presented prepared screenshots of a private conversation between him and Vice President Stephanie Rigsby.
